5.10 preview install disaster

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-14, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed the 5.10 preview and I'm pretty
> dissappointed.  After all the rave reviews I've read about
> Ubunto, I'd have to say it's the worst Linux install I've ever
> done.  
>
> I've done at least 50 Debian installs, dozens of Mandrake
> installs and installs of every RedHat version since 2.1.  I've
> also installed several different versions of Suse, TurboLinux,
> and a few others. This particular laptop has had three or four
> different Debian installs, at least four RedHat installs and
> five or six Mandrake installs.  All those installs worked fine
> except for a few where suspend didn't work.
>
> Them along comes the "breezy badger".  The install process
> itself seemed to go smoothly except for the network device
> section.  It didn't detect my cardbus network card, and when it
> told me to go back and install a module for it, there was no
> way to do so -- it just did the autodetect and told me no
> network card was detected and I should go back and install a
> module for it.
>
> Once the install finished, I logged in and booted up Gnome.
> None of the administration/config utilities work.  They ask for
> the root password, "start" for a few seconds, then nothing.
> [Except for one of the network configuration tools -- it brings
> up a blank window and then locks up so that you have to kill
> it.]
>
> After editing /etc/network/interfaces and manually bringing up
> the network, I tried to install the jed editor using apt-get.
> Nope.  No sources are configured, so apt-get is useless.
>
> I pick the "add/remove programs" entry off the menu. It asks
> for the root password, then nothing.
>
> I try to "log out" and that doesn't work either.
>
> So, it's ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X.  I do a "shutdown -fr"
> from a console and it hangs "checking the battery status" while
> booting up.
>
> Not impressed so far...
>


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